Baby Monitor Hackers Talk To A Three-Year-Old Boy At Night

The couple heard "wake-up little boy, daddy's looking for you," from the monitor.

We recently shared the disconcerting tale about one baby monitor being hacked, but this Washington couple is proving that the problem is growing and getting way creepier.

The parents—who don't want to release their identities out of fear that the hackers will gain even more information about them—said they were using online baby monitors in their three-year-old son's room until he began complaining about someone talking to him at night. At first, the couple thought he was just being a typical toddler and weren't sure what he meant. Then one night they also heard voices coming from his baby monitor.

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The father heard, "Wake-up little boy, daddy's looking for you." Later on, when his wife walked into their son's room, they could hear hackers saying, "Look someone's coming" or "Someone's coming into view."

After the alarming incident, the couple contacted Foscam, the company where they bought their monitor, asking if hackers had anything to do with it. They were told that it was unfortunately possible that their cameras were being controlled by someone else, though they could not provide any information as to where the hackers were coming from.

Yikes! A word of caution: If you are using an online baby monitor, make sure to change your passwords frequently to lessen the chance of something this scary happening to you, too.